Cannoli Recipe Needs Cannoli Shells if Learning How to Make Italian Recipes

The cannoli recipe is very familiar to those of us who love Italian dessert recipes. These sweet Sicilian cream rolls has a dough than is rolled thin, wrapped around metal tubes and fried to make a crisp shell. Then they are filled with a ricotta mixture, sometimes adding a little chopped fruit or chopped chocolate.

RECIPE FOR CANNOLI

Dough:

• 1 ¾ Cups flour


• ½ Teaspoon salt


• 1 Egg, whole


• 2 Tablespoons butter, chopped in small pieces


• ¼ Cup Marsala wine


• 1 Egg white, slightly beaten


• Vegetable oil for frying

In a bowl mix the flour, sugar and salt. Make a well in center and add whole egg and butter. Mix with a fork to moisten flour. Add wine, a little at a time, until dough starts clinging together. Using hands shape dough into a ball. Cover and let stand for 1 hour.

Roll dough out on a floured board until about 1/8 inch thick. Cut dough into 3 ½ inch circles; roll circles into a slight oval. Wrap oval dough around cannoli tubes and seal edges with the egg white.

Heat 2 inches of oil in a deep pan to about 350F degrees on a deep fry thermometer. Put 2 to 3 cannoli tubes into hot oil and cook until golden brown. With tongs, remove from oil. Cool for a few seconds and carefully remove the shell from the tube. Cool completely.

Cannoli filling:

• ½ Cup whipping cream


• 2 Cups ricotta cheese


• 3/4 Cups powdered sugar


• 2 Teaspoons vanilla


• ¼ Cup candied citron, finely chopped


• ¼ Cup candied orange peel, finely chopped


• 2 Tablespoons chopped milk chocolate

Whip cream until stiff and set aside. Mix ricotta cheese until very smooth and add the sugar and vanilla. Fold the whipped cream into the ricotta mixture. Chill for several hours.

TIP: Wrap Ricotta in a cheese cloth until all the liquid is absorbed.

Use a large pastry tube to force filling into shells. Garnish with citron, orange peel and chocolate.

Try More Delicious Italian Dessert Recipes

• Puttanesca


• Italian finger food


• Italian fig cookies


• Italian breakfast food


• Tiramisu recipe

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